Federal immigration agents tackled and arrested a Somali American man in Minneapolis on Tuesday and detained him for about two hours for no apparent reason other than his ethnicity.
Mubashir, who moved to the United States as a small boy and became a naturalized American citizen, said that he stepped onto a sidewalk near 4th Street and Cedar Avenue during his lunch break when two masked men approached him. The Cedar-Riverside neighborhood is the heart of the city’s Somali American community.
The entire article reads like a comedy… Of errors. The ICE agents didn’t know what they were doing. Didn’t know where to go. Didn’t have functioning equipment. Didn’t know how to use said equipment. Couldn’t follow basic instructions (navigation).
Forget the innocent civilian who was pointlessly harassed and detained for a moment: They are clearly wasting US tax dollars, driving around aimlessly, without proper training, accomplishing absolutely nothing.
It is astonishingly clear that ICE is incapable of doing the most basic functions of their job. Better to not even have immigration enforcement at all than this pointless waste of government resources.
This is the clearest demonstration yet that Republicans are completely incapable of governing efficiently. Or even governing at all! If they can’t even implement their own Nazi/racist ideals properly, what makes you think they can do something as complicated as balancing the budget or managing a war?
They can’t even get villaining right!
I know this is a little off topic but I’m tired of the whole “Nazis were well organized and ran things like a well oiled machine” trope because it’s just fantasy.
There were a ton of rather inept people in office, plenty of idiots running amock and the military structure was a joke where people who had no business playing commander got to make life and death decisions.
Like I really encourage anyone to just do some more reading on how the whole government and military was organized and the cascade of errors that came about because of it. There is a reason the third Reich lasted only 12 years and it’s not just because they made bad decisions in the lead up to and during world war 2.
‘“only” 12 years’ just made me super depressed.
Yeah it’s a bummer. History is full of shitty stuff, too much of it is the same as now. Also if you study history or sociology any you start to see that humans, no matter how we organize ourselves, fall into sadly predictable patterns by stubbornly refusing to learn the lessons of our past.
You misunderstand. That they can target anyone, at any time, is the point. They want you to live in fear.
Like everyone has this image of the Nazis being very orderly and efficient. And in some ways that’s true. But the Sturmabteilung, like ICE, were not accountable to the law. If they turned up and decided they didn’t like you, you could be beaten, kidnapped, tortured, or killed.